LOOK BACK IN ANGER

a play (1956) by John Osborne . Its main character, Jimmy Porter, is an ‘ angry young man ’ who directs his anger about British society at his upper-class wife Alison. The play was a great influence on other writers of the 1950s, and these writers and Osborne himself also became known as ‘angry young men’. A film (1959) was later made, with Richard Burton (III) as Jimmy Porter.